JobStart - Where Futures Begin

The Central South Etobicoke Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) is a partnership of local community agencies led by Job Start and funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to develop a comprehensive strategy to enhance the economic and social integration of newcomers in the area. To that end, the Partnership conducts research, including focus groups and one-on-one interviews with immigrants/ newcomers to help us identify the services and support they need to access employment, housing, education and health care.

Volunteer TaxPreparation Clinics

Canadian Winter Olympics

The 2010 Winter Olympics is a major international multi-sport event held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, BC, with some events held in the resort town of Whistler, and in the Vancouver suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands.

These are the third Olympics hosted by Canada. Previously, Canada was home to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

Following Olympic tradition, the Olympic flag was received during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy and was displayed at Vancouver City Hall. The flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, on October 22, 2009. In Canada, the torch traveled approximately 45,000 kilometers over 106 days.

Happy New Year!!!

Theatre Project 2009: results

As a result of cooperation between Russian House and Teatralnaya Laboratoriya Vadima Maksimova (St.Petersburg, Russia), two shows have been performed in Toronto and one show at the International Theatre Festival Doubledefi in Mont-Laurier (QC).

September 6 & 7, 2009

Russian-Canadian Theatre Play

The new Canadian-Russian play "A Hunt for a Sweet Little Deer" will be performed on September 6 at North York Central Library (5120 Yonge St., Toronto, ON) (starting 8pm) and an September 7 at George Ignatieff Theatre (15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON) (starting at 8pm).

August 15-23, 2009

Rogers Cup for Russian House

July 1, 2009

Canada Day

Canada Day is the celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the British North America Act of 1867, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.